Emma Reynolds MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Minister, commenting on Shelter’s latest research on house prices, said:

“Our nation is in the grip of a cost of living crisis and many young people are seeing their dream of owning a home slip away.

“Under this Prime Minister house building has slumped to its lowest level since the 1920s. Unless David Cameron wakes up and acts now to build more homes which people can actually afford, he risks making it even harder for first time buyers to get on the housing ladder.”

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